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''Johnny Lingo'' is a 1969 short film based on a [[https://orion.math.iastate.edu/hentzel/class.545.10/Johny short story]] by Patricia [=McGerr=]. The film was directed by Wetzel O. Whitaker and [[UsefulNotes/MormonCinema produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. The film is about Johnny Lingo, a successful trader who is searching for a wife. Like the short story, the film takes place on the Kiniwata island of Hawaii.

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''Johnny Lingo'' is a 1969 short film based on a [[https://orion.math.iastate.edu/hentzel/class.545.10/Johny short story]] by Patricia [=McGerr=]. The film was directed by Wetzel O. Whitaker and [[UsefulNotes/MormonCinema [[MediaNotes/MormonCinema produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. The film is about Johnny Lingo, a successful trader who is searching for a wife. Like the short story, the film takes place on the Kiniwata island of Hawaii.
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Watch the whole film on [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfahoLfrddU here]].

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Watch the whole film on [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfahoLfrddU the Internet Archive [[https://archive.org/details/johnnylingo_201512 here]].
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* ProtagonistTitleProtagonistTitle: Johnny Lingo is a traveling (and apparently wealthy) merchant.
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* AccidentalBargainingSkills: Moki starts the dowry with three cows (already a high price), and Johnny Lingo raises it to eight cows.

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* AccidentalBargainingSkills: Moki starts the dowry negotiations with a demand for three cows (already (an average price, but considered ridiculously exorbitant for a high price), homely girl considered almost too old to get married), and Johnny Lingo raises it to eight cows.
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* TheFreelanceShameSquad: Almost everybody laughs at Moki for offering a dowry of three cows for Mahana to Johnny Lingo.

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* TheFreelanceShameSquad: Almost everybody laughs at Moki for offering demanding a dowry of three cows for Mahana to Johnny Lingo.


''Johnny Lingo'' is a 1969 short film based on a [[https://orion.math.iastate.edu/hentzel/class.545.10/Johny short story]] by Patricia [=McGerr=]. The film was directed by Wetzel O. Whitaker and [[MormonCinema produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. The film is about Johnny Lingo, a successful trader who is searching for a wife. Like the short story, the film takes place on the Kiniwata island of Hawaii.

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''Johnny Lingo'' is a 1969 short film based on a [[https://orion.math.iastate.edu/hentzel/class.545.10/Johny short story]] by Patricia [=McGerr=]. The film was directed by Wetzel O. Whitaker and [[MormonCinema [[UsefulNotes/MormonCinema produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. The film is about Johnny Lingo, a successful trader who is searching for a wife. Like the short story, the film takes place on the Kiniwata island of Hawaii.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Mahana's character is named Sarita in the original short story.
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* GreekChorus: The American shopkeeper provides commentary on the story.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Mahana, you ugly!"]]



* TreeCover: Mahana is constantly hiding in the trees.

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* TreeCover: Mahana is constantly can usually be found hiding in the trees.
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* BeautifulAllAlong: Mahana.

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* BeautifulAllAlong: Mahana.Mahana goes from everybody calling her ugly to one of the most beautiful girls on the island.



* CreepyChildrenSinging: "Johnny Lingo had a cow / Trade it for an ugly life / Johnny Lingo's married now / He'll be sorry all his life"

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* CreepyChildrenSinging: "Johnny Lingo had a cow / Trade it for an ugly life wife / Johnny Lingo's married now / He'll be sorry all his life"



* TheFreelanceShameSquad: Everybody laughs when Moki offers Johnny Lingo a dowry of three cows for Mahana.

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* TheFreelanceShameSquad: Everybody Almost everybody laughs when at Moki offers Johnny Lingo for offering a dowry of three cows for Mahana.Mahana to Johnny Lingo.

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Watch the film on [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfahoLfrddU here]].

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Watch the whole film on [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfahoLfrddU here]].


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* DowryDilemma: Averted. Johnny Lingo has no problem paying eight cows for Mahana's dowry.
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* TheFreelanceShameSquad: Everybody laughs when Moki offers Johnny Lingo a dowry of three cows for Mahana.
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''Johnny Lingo'' is a 1969 short film based on a [[https://orion.math.iastate.edu/hentzel/class.545.10/Johny short story]] by Patricia [=McGerr=]. The film was directed by Wetzel O. Whitaker and [[MormonCinema produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. The film is about Johnny Lingo, a successful trader who is searching for a wife. Like the short story, the film takes place on the Kiniwata island of Hawaii.

The short film was adapted into a [[TheMovie feature film]] titled ''Film/TheLegendOfJohnnyLingo'', released in 2003.

Watch the film on [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfahoLfrddU here]].

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!!This short film provides examples of:

* AccidentalBargainingSkills: Moki starts the dowry with three cows (already a high price), and Johnny Lingo raises it to eight cows.
* AnAesop:
--> '''Johnny Lingo''': Many things can happen to make a woman beautiful. The thing that matters most is what she thinks of herself.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Mahana.
--> '''Johnny Lingo''': I have loved her ever since we were children. She was always beautiful.
* CharacterTitle
* CreepyChildrenSinging: "Johnny Lingo had a cow / Trade it for an ugly life / Johnny Lingo's married now / He'll be sorry all his life"
* TreeCover: Mahana is constantly hiding in the trees.

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